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The Voice of Sokurov

Original title (in Finnish): Sokurovin ääni

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Leena Kilpeläinen
Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia

Original title: Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia

2013 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.
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Working Title: Wunderkind

Original title: Tööpealkiri: Imelaps

2012 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills.

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills. Alex completes his first composition aged eight and enters the St. Petersburg Conservatory aged 13, where he graduates in the composition and conducting master classes in 2010, aged 17. It is his mother in particular who pushes her son's career: She arranges concerts with leading orchestras in Russia and England, she admonishes him to practise and negotiates his contracts. And ...
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Strangers at Home

Original title: Võõras omade seas

2009 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Karin Reinberg, Aleksandr Heifets
Lotman's World

Original title: Lotmani maailm

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Agne Nelk

Portrait documentary with humorous touch tells about Juri Lotman, a world famous semiotician. The film is based on archival materials.

How to portrait a man whose world is as big as a galaxy? A man whose head houses a whole semiosphere? The fragments of Lotman's heritage have been documented in photographs, books, video recordings. One possibility in order to reflect all this would gather different lives, to visualise them and to weave them into a whole. In the film, Juri Lotman as an insect, a communicator, a man with a mustache, a jew, a cosmopolitan, a semiotician, a thinker, a father, a lecturer and a cosmonaut meets Einstein, Stalin, Gagarin, Belka and Strelka, Pushkin and Knights of the Round Table. ...
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Spe Fretus - Relying on Hope

Original title: Spe Fretus - lootusele tuginedes

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaido Leesme
The Last Phantoms

2006 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat
Maimu

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus

16-year-old Maimu lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Puka, Estonia; speaks several languages and prepares for Norwegian studies in Saint Petersburg University.

Maimu Berezkina (16) has had two homes and two home towns - Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Puka (Estonia). Maimu has already passed the secondary school programme both in St. Petersburg and in Puka; she is dreaming about learning Norwegian in Saint Petersburg University. Maimu's father has Russian and mother Estonian nationality. Maimu considers herself as an Estonian - she speaks and thinks in several languages and for her there are no borders between nations.
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The Treasures of St.Petersburg and The Hermitage

Original title: St. Peterburi aarded

2003 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Rein Kotov
Person is Missing

Original title: Inimene kadus

2000 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

In a small country Estonia every year about 100 people go missing. Their close ones call for help both heavenly and earth forces in order to find the missing family members.

The documentary follows three events: the mysterious disappearance of Eljo, the mother of four; searches of Jura, a young Russian man; and the story of Heidi who got lost and media went crazy about it. The close ones of the missing people call for help both heavenly and earthly forces: they make inquiries at a police station and visit clairvoyants. An incomprehensible situation makes people emotional, even Estonians with their non-existent temperament won't hide their annoyance and desperation, not to speak about hot-tempered Russians. The documentary raises the question: how is it possible that so many people go missing in ...
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